English Didactics Week III

 

Hi there! 

In this week we reviewed some new interesting topics and at the same time we gathered  more information on the direct method teaching, since this method is looking to help the student to get communicated it really helps them to improve mainly the speaking and listening part, Germany and France are the origin countries of the direct method, this one discovered by a man named Maximilian Berlitz. 

The Direct Method is really good to learn or/and teach a language because it is really focused on the student practicing orally, translation and grammar rules are really important to know, however, while using this method these two are left behind.

There are two types of ways to teach with the direct method: 

 - English for Specific Purposes (ESP) mostly used for technical terms 

 - English for General Purposes (EGP) mostly used to improve all skills

Hey, but that's not the only topic on this week, we also learned about another interesting method which is called "The Audilingual Method", this one is A.K.A "The Army Method" it was also knowned by this name because this is a way in which soldiers got to have a good communication in WWII, this method consists in repeating everything that a person said, practicing with substitution drills. 

I hope you had a good time reading this blog, have a good one. See you next week!

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